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mully_85
Davey Langan Joined: 15 Jul 2011 Location: Omagh Status: Offline Points: 797 |
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he could be the next Gary Doc, play centre half and centre forward
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 915 |
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It would delay and complicate him playing for another nation subsequently if he was capped by Ireland. So he's not got picked in the underage squads once in three years because our strength in depth is so much it means a highly rated and talented Manchester United youth team player cannot get a look ahead of even players that couldn't get a club in England and at the risk of losing him to another nation also. That's the argument you are sticking to right just so I'm clear? I'm amazed a player rated so lowly has been mentioned so many times on this forum and that any club in a serious league would be so keen to sign him now.
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 9964 |
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Think you need to google the meaning of “vast majority” bud.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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He would hardly be the first player we've had playing for a big club that has been scarcely involved at underage level, would he? I don't recall any mass hysteria surrounding Ryan Nolan potentially declaring for Spain/Italy when he was being frequently overlooked. Kayode is however a fitting comparison; widely questioned due his lack of underage involvement with us, but lo-and-behold he's just been named in the U-21 squad. Basically what I'm asking is that you provide one piece of evidence to support your position that is not hearsay based on the fact he's of Nigerian heritage? I would wager you'll be unable to do that.
Edited by The O'Shea - 02 Oct 2020 at 3:19pm |
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 915 |
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Sometimes, quite often indeed, in life you have to rely on logic and reason and what is blindingly obvious where definitive written prove is not in existence . No Irish player playing in the youth teams of one of the top English clubs, let alone a highly rated prospect, has ever been left out persistently through Ireland age group teams. The chances of him simply not being considered worth a place in any of the squads are something like 0.1 %. Only the most stubborn and blinkered individual living in a world of perpetual chronic insecurity and denial of reality would believe that to be the case .......welcome to the world of the O'shea!
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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So in other words, you're basically acknowledging that your standpoint is based in nothing more than an innate distrust of foreign-ancestry players. Fair enough, that's what I thought.
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 915 |
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In completely other words of your own invention maybe. Nope just my basic intelligence and sense of reason ruling over a neurotic insecurity over my sense of national identity an an autistic level unwillingness to confront reality under any circumstances. I think that puts me in a better place to view the world. I understand though that to face up to that one day your entire world would fall apart.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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How is it neurotic or insecure to ask you to provide evidence for your claims? The only person displaying paranoia and neurosis is the one claiming that simply by virtue of not being called up in a couple of years, a young dual nationality player clearly has no interest in playing for us and is gunning for an England/Nigeria call up that he has given no indication he wants! Like would you listen to yourself, you are literally the definition of a neurotic, insecure individual; seeing things that just aren't there and convincing yourself they must be true
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 915 |
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I never said he was gunning for an England or Nigeria call up, that's you projecting your insecurities again. What he has shown is a total disinterest in playing for Ireland at any point since 2017 and as he coincidentally happens to be eligible for one if not two other nations you can draw your own conclusions but its an obvious inference. Maybe he just has a massive aversion to travelling to setting foot in Dublin though and who could blame him? A lot more believable than the not good enough for Ireland 1992 age group consideration angle you are pushing.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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Insecure about what exactly? I'm not the one questioning an Irish persons commitment to playing international football for Ireland based solely on the fact their parents are Nigerian? That is all you. I'm casting no aspertions whatsoever, because the reality is that neither of us have an inside track, we can only interpret the evidence in front of us and you are drawing a conclusion based on no evidence at all. You're literally projecting your own biases, distrust, and paranoia onto me and acting like I'm the one making things up. It's absolutely tragic tbh
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Eoink21
Liam Brady Joined: 30 Aug 2019 Status: Offline Points: 1202 |
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provide evidence for the "total disinterest" please.
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IrishKeano
Phil Babb Joined: 09 Sep 2019 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 47 |
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Jesus Christ!!! Will you cop on and just ignore people, every thread is hijacked by you arguing with people,you have the forum ruined for everybody! .
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Conan
Davey Langan I’m not very bright. Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 915 |
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Artifact A would be the failure to present himself for international representation since Under-15 level when there are a dozen more squad call ups for his age group which he is mysteriously missing from. So either FAI are not interested in him, considering themselves to have better options available than Man United's top talent in his age group and not caring the least for his entitlement to pursue other national directions, or he is not interested in them. Which do you think is more likely on the basis of probability?
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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Firstly, he was selected for us at U-16, not U-15. Secondly, you can't present yourself if you aren't selected? Paranoia personified
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton Joined: 04 Aug 2020 Status: Offline Points: 6615 |
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Of course it doesn't have anything to do with skin colour. That's just a red herring. It would make as much sense for me to say that Darren Randolph had to fight way harder to win over a minority of Irish supporters because of the colour of his skin and stereotypes about black goalkeepers; that some fans had an unconscious bias that contributed to persistent nitpicking over his performances despite the fact that 9 times out of 10 he's one of our better players. It took Keiren Westwood and Rob Elliot playing about a dozen times between them over the last 12 months and training with their club's kids for the weird cries to drop Randolph to finally subside. There are complete and utter headbangers on this forum [everyone knows who they are] who like to lay claim on certain footballers nationalities. An example of this is CJ Hamilton, a 25 year old who has played his entire career up until a few weeks ago at at League 2 level or lower. As far as anyone is aware he has no Irish heritage, he certainly hasn't declared for Ireland. This hasn't stopped our resident headbangers from bringing his name up in threads like the "Irish Player Transfers" one, on the basis of nothing other than him playing for a GAA team when he lived briefly in Ireland a few years ago. Meanwhile Deji Sotona, who carries Irish AND Nigerian citizenship, and is also eligible for England, is "Irish as Joe Dolan" and if anyone says anything else they are a racist. This despite the fact as, Irish people should well know, identity is a deeply personal thing if you have two parents of Nigerian/Polish/Lithuanian/Chinese heritage - as I've already explained anecdotally, I know of lads of African descent who alternatively identify as Nigerian/Irish/both. Sotona has been described as eligible for Nigeria, England and Ireland in almost every article I've read about the lad. Now, unless the media has completely fabricated his eligibility for England [possible, but unlikely], the player's agency must have volunteered this information themselves. The alternative is that they pulled the information out of thin air or got it by osmosis. Of course to the aforementioned headbangers on this forum, stuff like this only happens when it suits their narrative. Declan Rice and Jack Grealish are as Irish as Brendan Behan or Seamus Heaney until which point they declare for England when suddenly the narrative shifts to "agents/FA/marketing staff/Tim Sherwood" put them under pressure to declare for evil, manipulative England. TL; DR Sotona hasn't played for Ireland in two-and-a-half years; eligible for more than one country; don't claim people as Irish when you know nothing about their personal circumstances
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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You're just making things up now. No one has "laid claim" to anyone, that's just your own agenda speaking. Players like Hamilton have been mentioned as eligible for Ireland because they are eligible for Ireland (not just through residency either, I think it has been mentioned that his mother is Irish), nothing more. Why exactly that gets up your nose so much I don't know. Clearly it's just another of your many psychological quirks.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton Joined: 04 Aug 2020 Status: Offline Points: 6615 |
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He's an English footballer who hasn't declared for Ireland. His name being brought up in the "Irish Player Transfers" thread is much more peculiar than Deji Sotona's name being brought up in the "Eligible Players" thread. You just admitted you "think" his mother is Irish FFS. I don't make things up. That's your gimmick. You fabricated something I never said in the Connor Ronan thread. Not sure why you're allowed to get away with it, but no skin off my nose.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9485 |
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You are literally deranged, I've never come across someone with such a pathological hatred of innocuous things. I'll leave it there for everyone else's sake.
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